Mary Berkheiser | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Mary Berkheiser
		Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-2402 Email: berkheiser@law.unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., University of Arizona J.D. magna cum laude, University of Arizona 1984

	Professor Berkheiser earned her J.D. magna cum laude in 1984 from the University of Arizona. She was editor-in-chief of the Arizona Law Review and earned the Outstanding Senior Award. She was a law clerk to Arizona Supreme Court Justice Stanley Feldman, and spent eight years as an attorney with Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon in Phoenix, Arizona, where she practiced in the areas of employment law, appellate litigation and professional liability defense. She has prosecuted and defended appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Arizona Supreme Court, and Arizona Court of Appeals. Professor Berkheiser taught in the Law School Clinic at the Arizona State University College of Law from 1995 to 1998 in the areas of employment, housing, and consumer law. Professor Berkheiser is the Co-Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic, and teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure.

	Areas of Expertise: Appellate Law Clinical Legal Education Criminal Procedure Juvenile Law

	Selected Publications: BOOK Supreme Court Of Nevada, Administrative Office Of The Courts, Nevada Domestic Violence Resource Manual (Legal Ed. 2000). BOOK CHAPTER Dissolution: Good Faith, Bad Faith – Who Gets the Fee, in Withdrawal, Retirement and Disputes: What You and Your Firm Need to Know (Edward Berger ed. 1986) (with Stanley G. Feldman). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Justice Miriam Shearing: Nevada’s Trailblazing Minimalist, 6 Nev. L.J. 156 (2005). Lexis Westlaw Hein Capitalizing Adolescence: Juvenile Offenders on Death Row, 59 U. Miami L. Rev. 135(2005). Lexis Westlaw Hein The Fiction of Juvenile Right to Counsel: Waiver in the Juvenile Courts, 54 Fla. L. Rev. 577 (2002). Lexis Westlaw Hein Frasier Meets CLEA: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Law School Clinics, 6 Psychology, Pub. Pol. & L. 1147 (1999). Lexis Westlaw Medical Dependency in Arizona, 25 Ariz. L. Rev. 769 (1983). Norris v. Arizona Governing Committee: Title VII’s Applicability to Arizona’s Deferred Compensation Plan, 24 Ariz. L. Rev. 1032 (1982). BAR PUBLICATIONS The William S. Boyd School of Law Juvenile Justice Clinic, 9 NEV. LAW., Aug. 2001, At 30. --> More Publications (pdf)

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